I have been watching commentary in the news, social media and on talk radio. I’ve noticed a trend: everyone realizes we are in trouble, but they also believe this nation will survive. Even those who constantly preach that the end is here still act as though they believe we will survive. Well, they are correct: whatever happens, the physical property we call ‘America’ will survive. But the thing our Founders called ‘America’ is already dead. What do I mean by that? Simple: America is an ideal, not a place, and our Founders said so:

“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.“

–Benjamin Franklin

Well, whether we wish to accept the truth or not, that ideal is dead. It’s been dead for a long time. No, I don’t mean that there is no longer a smoldering coal or two that still remembers and yearns for a return to the…